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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:49:40 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> > Better safe than sorry...
> >
> > Is it possible that a chain entry pointer has bit 1 set on architectures
> > (e.g. m68k) where the natural alignment of 32-bit quantities is _2_ bytes,
> > not 4?
>
> Better make sure that such alignment never happens... But no, I don't
> think it will, since these things would generally always have to be
> allocated with an allocator, and the *allocator* won't return 2-byte
> aligned data structures.

No - but a structure which has other objects in it before the object
being written out may well be 2 byte aligned on M68K and some of the
other externally 16bit platforms - ditto local dynamic objects.

Why can't we just make the list one item longer than the entry count and
stick a NULL on the end of it like normal people ? Then you need one bit
which ought to be safe for everyone (and if the bit is a macro any CPU
warped enough to have byte alignment is surely going to have top bits
spare...)

Alan
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